Listing sheets in Excel files

Whether you like it or not, any working data scientist will need to deal with Excel spreadsheets at some point in time. You won't always want to do so in Excel, however!

Here, you'll learn how to use pandas to import Excel spreadsheets and how to list the names of the sheets in any loaded .xlsx file.

Recall from the video that, given an Excel file imported into a variable spreadsheet, you can retrieve a list of the sheet names using the attribute spreadsheet.sheet_names.

Specifically, you'll be loading and checking out the spreadsheet 'battledeath.xlsx', modified from the Peace Research Institute Oslo's (PRIO) dataset. This data contains age-adjusted mortality rates due to war in various countries over several years.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Importing Data in Python

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Exercise instructions

Assign the spreadsheet filename (provided above) to the variable file.
Pass the correct argument to pd.ExcelFile() to load the file using pandas, assigning the result to the variable xls.
Print the sheetnames of the Excel spreadsheet by passing the necessary argument to the print() function.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import pandas
import pandas as pd

# Assign spreadsheet filename: file
file = ____

# Load spreadsheet: xls
xls = pd.ExcelFile(____)

# Print sheet names
print(____)

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